Student Activism

Photos: Students Occupy University In Madrid

March 27, 2014 Mercury News, www.mercurynews.com Resist! Protest, Spain, Student Activism

(AP) Students set fires and made barricades during the first day of a student strike to protest a government education reform and cutbacks in grants and staffing, at Complutense University, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Spanish police say they have arrested more than 50 students when the police moved in to end the occupation of a campus building after the university had asked them to intervene. Students, many with their faces covered, set fire to trash containers and set up barricades on at least two streets in the university complex during the protest.

Students & Faculty In Maine Continue To Organize Against Cuts

March 27, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Austerity, Democracy, Education, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Student Activism

Hundreds of students and university workers rally outside of the law building at the University of Southern Maine Portland campus on Monday, March 24. When University of Southern Maine administrators announced mass faculty firings and departmental cuts, students, faculty, and staff protested by taking over part of a university building last Friday. A few days—and sit-ins and walk-outs—later, their continued mobilization against the "national corporate war on public education" appears to be resonating with students and university workers across the country. Earlier this month, USM president Theo Kalikow and Provost Michael Stevenson announced a push to cut four academic programs—American and New England studies, geosciences, arts and humanities at the school’s Lewiston-Auburn College facility, and recreation and leisure studies—and up to 50 faculty and staff. The first round of lay-offs took place Friday when a dozen faculty members—including tenured professors—were handed "retrenchment" or layoff letters.

Indigenous Student Explains Why She Is Active In Idle No More

March 26, 2014 Erica Violet Lee, www.youtube.com Resist! Indigenous Rights, Student Activism

The idea that some lives matter less than others is the foundation of my activism. . . Erica Violet Lee a student who is active with Idle No More speaks at Saskatoon Change Makers, January 31st, 2014, at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, SK. She describes why she has become active, why she defines herself as a student and the strength she gets from hanging out with aboriginal youth and talking with elders. Being active is something you have to do to survive. It is not a hobby on the side. We are all relations from the tiniest turtle to people on the other side of the world.

The Afterlife Of The Free Speech Movement’s Mario Savio

March 23, 2014 Clancy Sigal, www.alternet.org Educate! Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Mario Savio, Student Activism

Veterans of the 1964 Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Calif., an event that electrified young men and women the world over, will return to campus for the 50th anniversary reunion this October. FSM’s most famous leader, Mario Savio, won’t be there because he died in 1996. Savio held fast to the end: radical, reasonable, intransigent. He married and had children, had a nervous breakdown, went back to school, taught math and philosophy and had an early heart attack. Personally, I see his afterlife at least as heroic as his big moment on campus. Normal life ain’t that easy for any of us especially if you’ve been lightning-struck by media attention and peer popularity.

On Austerity Chopping Block, Students & Faculty Occupy University

March 22, 2014 Sarah Lazare www.commondreams.org Educate! Occupy, Student Activism

Wendy Chapkis, professor in Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies who participated in the occupation, told Common Dreams that the lay-offs hit faculty of color the hardest. "We've been agitating for years for the university to hire women of color," said Chapkis. "Now they are laying off dozens of faculty members, starting with the most recent hires. Out of the 8 people I know who were laid off, three of them are minority faculty." John Eric Baugher, associate professor in sociology who received a lay-off notice Friday after 9 years at USM, told Common Dreams that "university management is pressuring seniorfaculty to retire to save the jobs of younger faculty" — in what he said amounts to "emotional blackmail."

How ‘Starving Student’ Cliche Became Harrowing Reality

March 20, 2014 Staff www.truthdig.com Educate! Hunger, Poverty, Student Activism, Youth

Meanwhile, it’s increasingly clear that the economic struggles students face during school follow them long past graduation. A major new report from the Pew Research Center, “Millennials in Adulthood: Detached from Institutions, Networked With Friends,” notes that people between 18 and 33 are the first generation in the modern era to have “higher levels ofstudent loan debt, poverty and unemployment, and lower levels of wealth and personal income than their two immediate predecessor generations (Gen Xers and Boomers) had at the same stage of their life cycles.” This, even though they are the “best-educated cohort of young adults in American history.”

Police Attack Student Protesters in San Fransisco

March 19, 2014 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Police abuse, Student Activism

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges said that unless CCSF shows remarkable improvement, the commission will proceed with revoking its accreditation in July 2014, effectively shutting down the school. Demonstrators claim that Agrella does not have their best interests in mind, in light of a tabled proposal that would've raised administrators' pay by 19 percent. Agrella said there are no plans to hand out raises, while three vice chancellors are getting 10 to 13 percent more than their approved salaries, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Meanwhile, faculty have seen their salaries cut in recent years. Campus and city police on Thursday blocked the entrance to Conlan Hall, where the protesters had planned to stage a sit-in. In the clash that followed, two protesters were arrested, including one who was pepper sprayed.

Northeastern Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine

March 18, 2014 Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine, www.northeasternsjp.org Organize! Palestine, Student Activism

With profound disappointment and righteous indignation Northeastern University Students for Justice in Palestine announces it has been suspended as an organization. SJP is disappointed because Northeastern’s claims of creating a diverse learning environment that encourages the free exchange of ideas and promotes Academic Freedom are impossible to reconcile with the university’s decision to suppress our speech and suspend our political group. As if banning our activities from campus and denying us all use of campus resources wasn’t outrageous enough, the university is pursuing expulsion-level sanctions for two students—all for participation in a mock eviction action. SJP is furious to report the only individuals to face our school’s opaque disciplinary process are two young women of color; none of the white or male participants have faced any charges. This unprecedented ban and appalling prosecutions are the latest attempt by the university to suppress pro-Palestine speech, and continues the university’s disturbing history of enacting injustice.

“The War On Campus” Against Palestinian Human Rights Advocacy

March 15, 2014 Staff, www.democracynow.org Resist! Apartheid, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Palestine, Student Activism

"The Northeastern University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine has become the latest student group to face reprimand for organizing around the Palestinian cause. Northeastern has suspended the group until 2015, barring it from meeting on campus and stripping it of any university funding. The move comes just weeks after student activists distributed mock eviction notices across the campus during Israeli Apartheid Week. The notices were intended to resemble those used by Israel to notify Palestinians of pending demolitions or seizures of their homes. We speak to Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine member Max Geller and Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of the new book, "The Battle for Justice in Palestine." His new book includes a chapter titled "The War on Campus."

Barnard Censors Students For Justice In Palestine

March 15, 2014 Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, www.columbiasjp.org Resist! Apartheid, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Palestine, Student Activism

"Columbia SJP is a student group at this university—no different from any other group—and has equal access to the same platforms and resources that are made available to all students. Barnard College students went through the necessary banner placement review process, which included clearly stating the banner’s message in advance. Had our request been rejected, it would have been an act of censorship and an infringement on our freedom of expression as a student group at this university. The fact that our banner has been taken down now is a direct violation of our freedom of expression. The removal of our banner this morning has left members of Columbia SJP, Palestinian students on campus and other students that are often marginalized and silenced, feeling that Barnard College does not follow its own antidiscrimination policies. We are alarmed to know that ‘Palestine’ and ‘justice’ are not acceptable in Barnard’s educational space and that certain voices are discriminated against by the College."

Protesters Converge After African-American Studies Professor Fired

March 14, 2014 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Protest, Racism, Student Activism

It’s not so easy to fire an associate professor of African American Studies who has forged strong ties with the surround Black community. Philadelphia’s Temple University is finding that out, in the case of Dr. Tony Monteiro. Protesters converged on campus, this week, and their anger was directed as much at “Afro-centrist” Prof. Molefi Asante as at Teresa Soufas, the Dean of Liberal Arts who fired Monteiro.

Structural Racism in NYC School System

March 14, 2014 Rebecca Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Racism, Student Activism

It seems New York City’s specialized schools continue to have a problem when it comes to admitting minority students. According to city's Department of Education data released this week, of the 5,096 eighth graders offered a spot to one of New York City’s eight exam-based specialized high schools for the 2014-2015 school year, only 11 percent are black or Hispanic, per education outlet Chalkbeat New York. At the same time, more than 70 percent of the city’s eighth graders are black or Hispanic, the outlet reports.

UC Santa Cruz Students Occupy Registrar for 18 Hours

March 8, 2014 Alex Darocy, www.indybay.org Resist! Student Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Students at UC Santa Cruz left the Hahn student services building today after occupying it for nearly 18 hours. Approximately 30 students decided as a group to leave; all of them were undergraduates. Before exiting the building they cleaned the area they occupied and then sang songs of solidarity and protest. The occupation was in support of UC workers and in continued opposition to the appointment of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California system.

New Superhero Comic Character Based On Youth Activist

March 4, 2014 Staff, www.adastracomix.com Educate! Education, Indigenous Rights, Student Activism, Youth

In a recent posting on DC Women Kicking Ass, sources have confirmed that comic artist Jeff Lemire has followed through on his projection from last year that he would be creating a new superherobased on deceased Indigenous teen activist Shannen Koostachin. They will be appearing in Justice League #1 which comes out this May. Shannen and other Indigenous youth launched the Students Helping Students campaign for a school for Attawapiskat.Koostachin spoke out about the experiences of her community in newspapers, at conferences, and on the steps of Parliament Hill in 2008. In 2009, at the age of 14, in 2009 she was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize. Tragically, Shannen died on May 30, 2010 in a car accident. Her legacy to improve the conditions of First Nations communities–particularly youth and students–lives on in a campaign called Shannen’s Dream.

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